:00:05. > :00:11.Aren't tonight's programme - they were sent to Canada from children's
:00:11. > :00:20.homes in Birmingham. Now the children are our back searching for
:00:20. > :00:26.their Midland routes. I have to have a measure of forgiveness. He
:00:26. > :00:31.could not give me what he had not been given himself. The unwanted
:00:31. > :00:37.999 calls that could raise other people's lives. I have been to
:00:37. > :00:40.patients who just want a chat, a cup of tea made. We are on the road
:00:40. > :00:46.with Black Country ambulances answering calls that should not
:00:46. > :00:56.have been made. She has locked herself out. I have not got your
:00:56. > :00:56.
:00:56. > :01:01.key. And a stage villain for real life hoodlum? The Coventry actor
:01:01. > :01:06.who could be heading back behind bars. I am an actor and nothing
:01:06. > :01:16.will change that. Even if I do go at a prison, when I come home I
:01:16. > :01:27.
:01:27. > :01:31.would go back to acting. Welcome to Welcome to Inside Out. We start
:01:31. > :01:41.tonight with an amazing story of a family search for their hidden
:01:41. > :01:43.
:01:43. > :01:51.history. Stand by bit the tissues. Post-World War 1. The country was
:01:51. > :02:01.heading for a Great Depression. Poverty amongst working-class
:02:01. > :02:01.
:02:01. > :02:08.families was common. This family had seven children. With no welfare
:02:08. > :02:12.state, the only solution at late in the Child migrant programme. They
:02:12. > :02:18.believe they were doing the right thing for the children. But hundred
:02:18. > :02:21.and 30,000 children was sent to the colonies. Beatrice was the youngest
:02:21. > :02:28.of the seven children sent to Canada and is the only one still
:02:28. > :02:33.alive. She is now 90, but unable to travel. Her son has come to
:02:33. > :02:37.Birmingham to try and find out why she was sent a wave. From this trip
:02:37. > :02:40.I am hoping to gain a better understanding of what my mother's
:02:40. > :02:50.sight of the family looked like and what some of these circumstances
:02:50. > :02:51.
:02:51. > :02:56.were. Gary's cousin Barbara has also come to Birmingham. She was 10
:02:56. > :03:02.when she was sent to Canada. sought to describe our family as a
:03:02. > :03:08.puzzle and a mystery. Little by little we have been able to put a
:03:08. > :03:15.small piece of that puzzle together. There are still missing pieces to
:03:15. > :03:23.be puzzled. Before children were sent to Canada, they were placed in
:03:23. > :03:27.an emigration home. This is Middlemore. Here is the building,
:03:27. > :03:36.the last bit left. It is a mystery why this remains, but many people
:03:36. > :03:43.are pleased it is here. This councillor is a former Middlemore
:03:43. > :03:47.shot himself. What was life like here for a child? They certainly
:03:47. > :03:55.had everything that they needed, like food, warmth and clothing.
:03:55. > :03:59.They definitely had that. A personal experience of mind was the
:03:59. > :04:03.one thing that I looked forward to was been tucked up in bed.
:04:03. > :04:10.Returning to the children's home is an overwhelming, yet important
:04:10. > :04:15.start to their journey. It gives me much better perspective on perhaps
:04:15. > :04:21.of the way and the reasoning wire my that, what happened to him, the
:04:21. > :04:29.sadness in his life and how he could not seen to overcome it. So I
:04:29. > :04:35.have to have a measure of forgiveness that he could not give
:04:35. > :04:44.me that he had not been given himself and so, you know, alcohol
:04:44. > :04:47.took over for him. He just could not handle it all. I would like to
:04:47. > :04:52.ask whether there were any records kept tear of the children as they
:04:52. > :04:57.flowed through the system? records were comprehensive on all
:04:57. > :05:03.the children, even after they went to Canada. There was information
:05:03. > :05:09.coming back about those children, all kept in a records by the
:05:09. > :05:13.Middlemore's Trust. Eventually, they were transferred from the
:05:13. > :05:17.Middlemore's Trust to the Central Library. Armed with this
:05:17. > :05:21.information, Gary and Barbara have come to Birmingham Central Library
:05:21. > :05:31.in the hope they will find some information regarding the break-up
:05:31. > :05:31.
:05:31. > :05:37.of their family. The name and age of each child is stated. There were
:05:37. > :05:42.seven other children listed. The children had been neglected. There
:05:42. > :05:50.is hardly any furniture in the house. Mother sits in the house all
:05:50. > :05:54.day smoking and in the final column you see they were sent to Canada on
:05:54. > :06:01.17th May 1924. It seems the evidence was quite strong, that the
:06:01. > :06:05.family was not functioning and the children were not being
:06:05. > :06:10.sufficiently well cared for. I guess it is helpful in a waiter
:06:10. > :06:15.about verified, but on the other hand, it is hurtful. Gary and
:06:15. > :06:18.Barbara are beginning to understand why the children were removed from
:06:18. > :06:28.the family home, but they do not know what happened to their
:06:28. > :06:36.
:06:36. > :06:40.grandparents. Market just out of -- mother was in an asylum. Had she
:06:40. > :06:46.been to the asylum prior to the children been taken, what did she
:06:46. > :06:53.go up after? We do not know from this record. She has obviously been
:06:53. > :06:58.in before the children were taking into the children's home, but there
:06:58. > :07:04.are no details. Maybe that is where she resided for the rest of her
:07:04. > :07:11.life, but I am not sure. Holly Moore was a psychiatric hospital,
:07:11. > :07:15.said based on this information, they are heading to the local
:07:15. > :07:21.history centre to try and find out more. The family roomette that Kate
:07:22. > :07:27.spent her life in a hospital appears to be true as the records
:07:27. > :07:31.show she died in 1969 in a psychiatric hospital. But the
:07:31. > :07:41.burial records reveal a surprise - their grandmother was not alone
:07:41. > :07:43.
:07:43. > :07:46.when she died. Yes, aren't find it. Is that not amazing? By that was
:07:46. > :07:56.Kate and Horace's second child. She was so traumatised by the break-up
:07:56. > :08:04.of her family that she returned from Canada in 1930. She was there
:08:04. > :08:09.anyone who would return to live in England. That is right. Gary and
:08:09. > :08:15.Barbara now know how and why do parents came to Canada and what
:08:15. > :08:25.became of their grandmother. But only mystery left to solve his
:08:25. > :08:26.
:08:26. > :08:31.their grandfather, Horace. condition was quite poor around
:08:31. > :08:41.1924 and so the prognosis didn't appear to be strong for him at that
:08:41. > :08:42.
:08:42. > :08:48.point. But it appears he was able to recover, or from what we can
:08:48. > :08:53.gather. -- from. After Kate had been hospitalised, Horace remarried
:08:53. > :08:59.and had another family. Horace had three more children with his second
:08:59. > :09:04.wife. The youngest of those is Derek and he believes he is the
:09:04. > :09:13.last surviving sibling. Derek is about to meet his niece and nephew
:09:13. > :09:23.for the first time. This is unbelievable! It is so unreal.
:09:23. > :09:31.can see the resemblance. Lovely to meet you. And they have a surprise
:09:31. > :09:41.for him. There is a picture of marmots in recent years. She is
:09:41. > :09:44.
:09:44. > :09:50.still alive. -- there is a picture of my mother. She will be 90 in
:09:50. > :09:57.September -- December. Derek is seen his sister Beatrice for the
:09:57. > :10:07.first time. In has been an emotional reunion. If I can just
:10:07. > :10:07.
:10:07. > :10:16.see where he is laid to rest. I wish I could have known him, you
:10:16. > :10:21.know? For Gary and Barbara, the chance to retrace their parents's
:10:22. > :10:31.steps and reconnect with their family is a chance that thousands
:10:31. > :10:40.of child migrants will never have. If you have got a story about your
:10:41. > :10:47.family, please drop me an e-mail. I would love to hear from you.
:10:47. > :10:52.Now, you have got an emergency, you dial 999, but was it necessary? We
:10:52. > :10:55.had been following some Black Country ambulance drivers who are
:10:55. > :11:03.sometimes taken aback by what they fight at the other end of that
:11:03. > :11:09.emergency call. -- what they find. When we think of the lives of
:11:09. > :11:12.paramedics, it is something along the lines of this. But tonight we
:11:13. > :11:22.will see the 999 calls it that should not have been made. I'd do
:11:23. > :11:28.
:11:28. > :11:38.not have your key, my laugh. -- my love. A third of all art 999 calls
:11:38. > :11:39.
:11:39. > :11:42.are not taken to hospital. They are treated at the scene. So why our
:11:42. > :11:46.ambulance crews been sent to incidence they do not need to
:11:47. > :11:56.attend and what can be done to cut down on these unnecessary call-
:11:57. > :11:59.
:11:59. > :12:03.outs? People have stub their toe, her their back. It is an early
:12:03. > :12:08.start for Steve Riley. He has been doing this for 10 years and often
:12:08. > :12:16.goes to court where he is not needed. A I had been to patients
:12:16. > :12:21.who need a chat, want a cup of tea made, need some tidying up done. 90
:12:21. > :12:29.% of the calls I go to on a normal day would be jobs that I should not
:12:29. > :12:39.be going too. And it could mean the scheme is not treating the people
:12:39. > :12:40.
:12:40. > :12:44.who need him most. We could have 8999 call, which is around the
:12:44. > :12:50.corner and paramedics are needed, but they are stuck with jobs that
:12:50. > :12:56.GPs, pharmacists or walk-in centres can do. As it turns out, Steve does
:12:56. > :13:06.not have to worry today. Everything he has attended has been a genuine
:13:06. > :13:09.
:13:09. > :13:19.emergency. But just as he is Probably alcohol-related, but I
:13:19. > :13:21.
:13:22. > :13:26.will keep an open mind to it. Have you had much today? Steve is right.
:13:26. > :13:30.It is a man who has been drinking and fallen over. Although he has
:13:30. > :13:33.been taken to hospital, Steve does not think an ambulance should be
:13:33. > :13:39.called. A lot of people will say, someone
:13:39. > :13:44.has fallen down, let us go 999 because it is their job. A lot of
:13:44. > :13:49.the time it is not our job. If they go over, have a look, I'll be OK?
:13:49. > :13:52.Lift them up and let them go on their way. That gentlemen got up
:13:52. > :13:56.off the floor and walked into the back of the ambulance. He was not
:13:56. > :14:01.injured, he had just had too much to drink.
:14:01. > :14:06.But that is the problem. We're not talking about hoax calls. In these
:14:06. > :14:10.cases, when a person dials 999, often they believe an ambulance is
:14:10. > :14:15.necessary. If a patient is boning 999, they
:14:15. > :14:20.genuinely think it is an emergency call. We're almost governed by our
:14:20. > :14:23.own success, because people know we arrive a very fast, they get seen
:14:23. > :14:28.very quickly, they get someone that can meet their needs and
:14:28. > :14:31.requirements. 999 is a very easy number to remember.
:14:31. > :14:37.It is a number so easy to remember that some people die it again and
:14:37. > :14:40.again and again. If for across the region we have a number of regular,
:14:40. > :14:45.persistent callers. We have got a patient at the moment
:14:45. > :14:52.that we have had since the 1st January, 200 calls from them since
:14:52. > :14:56.the 1st January. With his patient in particular, he is a large
:14:56. > :15:02.patient, we have to go out, picking up, and it is not just one crew
:15:03. > :15:06.that is required. It is three crews, six people that we need.
:15:06. > :15:11.The NHS is try to tackle regular callers by helping them find the
:15:11. > :15:14.right care, but that takes time. And for Steve, it is only part of
:15:14. > :15:21.the problem anyway. I do not think it is persistent
:15:21. > :15:25.callers. I think it is people that it needs to be educated in their
:15:25. > :15:29.health care themselves. Whether it is people calling
:15:29. > :15:34.hundreds of times or others just not understanding why you done my
:15:34. > :15:42.99, one thing is clear. It needs to be sorted. At one of the main
:15:42. > :15:49.reasons, it costs up to �180,000 every time this happens.
:15:49. > :15:55.Could I have crew, please? It is money well spent in general
:15:55. > :16:00.emergencies like this. -- genuine emergencies. But can Steve get to
:16:00. > :16:07.another shift without an unnecessary call-out?
:16:07. > :16:11.We got what we think is an elderly female who has collapsed, it does
:16:11. > :16:17.not sound very well according to what the controller has said. --
:16:17. > :16:23.she does not sound very well. A she has locked herself out.
:16:23. > :16:27.I do not have your key, laugh. The 4th a woman has got lot out of her
:16:27. > :16:33.house, and she has a headache and sore ankle.
:16:33. > :16:39.-- a woman has been locked out of her house.
:16:39. > :16:42.That is a yes, we will need to get into the property. I believe
:16:42. > :16:46.someone is trying to contact the family.
:16:46. > :16:52.For she need help, but for Steve, it is certainly not urgent, and
:16:52. > :16:57.definitely not life threatening. She has got a headache, but that is
:16:57. > :17:04.35 years old. And she has pain in her foot and a slight swelling, but
:17:04. > :17:09.nothing AGP can't sort out. The Cemal refer her to her GP. -- we
:17:09. > :17:13.will refer her to her GP. It's frustrating for paramedics and
:17:13. > :17:18.expensive for the NHS. The emergency responses in the West
:17:18. > :17:23.Midlands, where the patient is not take into a any, cost up to �40
:17:23. > :17:30.million a year. Cutting down on just a small number would save time
:17:30. > :17:36.and money and free up a valuable resources.
:17:36. > :17:39.Can have an ambulance, police? I have heard my ankle.
:17:39. > :17:43.Hull could be at hand. Control centres now have a new computer
:17:43. > :17:48.system called Pathways. It is a bit early to say what impact it could
:17:48. > :17:53.have, but in the north-east it has been running for five years, and as
:17:53. > :17:57.this exercise shows, it seems to do the trick.
:17:57. > :18:00.We have a person who will be able to have a look at your ankle. Have
:18:00. > :18:03.you got anyone who could take you there?
:18:03. > :18:08.Pathways makes it easier to identify when an emergency response
:18:08. > :18:13.is or is not necessary. Here, they have cut down on 2000 call-outs a
:18:13. > :18:17.month. But his everyone getting help when they needed?
:18:17. > :18:20.There is always an element of risk with any system. We have had an
:18:20. > :18:28.evaluation done by three universities independently, and the
:18:28. > :18:35.risk of not get an ambulance is less than 0.01 %. So this system is
:18:35. > :18:38.as safe as any other at -- any other emergency service.
:18:39. > :18:43.'s so it seems that Pathways has had an impact.
:18:44. > :18:47.Is it a part of the solution? I think it is part of it. There is
:18:47. > :18:51.a lot of public awareness that least to be done and social
:18:51. > :18:55.marketing to understand what services are available to people.
:18:55. > :18:58.A so, Pathways may put an end to some unnecessary call-outs. But the
:18:58. > :19:05.rest may be down to people understanding when they should and
:19:05. > :19:09.should not dial 999. As for Steve, he will be happy with anything that
:19:09. > :19:16.will stop him being sent to calls like this.
:19:16. > :19:23.We are going to a male, not quite sure how old, he cannot urinate. He
:19:23. > :19:27.is stating that he has run out of pads. I am wondering just why we
:19:27. > :19:32.are going, but we will have a look and see what we can do. Probably
:19:32. > :19:39.won't be able to do a lot for him there. Apart from pointing him in
:19:39. > :19:44.the right direction. For our final story, the criminal
:19:44. > :19:54.turned actor who could be heading back to jail. As we discover, there
:19:54. > :19:58.
:19:58. > :20:01.are no guarantees in the world of It is a Midsummer's Day at the
:20:01. > :20:06.Lichfield Festival, a real-life villain is playing one of
:20:07. > :20:12.Shakespeare's best, the wicked Edmond in King Lear.
:20:12. > :20:16.It's fantastic, doing this. I cannot wait to get back out there.
:20:16. > :20:24.Adrian Mason is plotting a career change, from armed robber to actor.
:20:24. > :20:29.You could say he has been typecast. His reinvention has hit a sack. He
:20:29. > :20:39.has broken his curfew to get to rehearsals. In a few days, Adrian
:20:39. > :20:44.
:20:44. > :20:48.Today, he is due in court. At 36, he has already spent nearly half
:20:48. > :20:56.his life in prison. He says he started young, encouraged by his
:20:56. > :21:01.stepfather. I was taught crime. Shoplifting and
:21:01. > :21:11.stuff. It progressed to burglary, and stuff like that. It was stuff I
:21:11. > :21:14.was taught. Car crime, theft. Fraud. Robberies in the end.
:21:14. > :21:24.Locked up in 2004 armed robbery, Adrian had time to learn something
:21:24. > :21:25.
:21:25. > :21:31.new. Bachelor girl locked up in 2000 -- locked up in 2004 bond
:21:31. > :21:35.robbery. This is something I have been
:21:35. > :21:43.trying to do for many years, learning acting, and I am not
:21:43. > :21:47.thinking about myself for once. It is a lot to take on.
:21:47. > :21:52.Growing up it was always a grin that he would turn to when I needed
:21:52. > :21:58.someone. -- Adrian. For his sister Amanda it was too
:21:58. > :22:03.much. A tough childhood made in -- made them particularly close.
:22:03. > :22:07.My mother was an alcoholic and left us. Eventually begot taken into
:22:07. > :22:15.care. Past memories are painful, and that
:22:15. > :22:20.makes today all the more difficult. I worry. It makes me feel a bit
:22:20. > :22:28.sick in my stomach. He might go to prison again, and I think if he
:22:28. > :22:35.goes back to prison he might just go back to where he was.
:22:35. > :22:40.I will see you later. A hopefully. Thank you.
:22:40. > :22:50.Adrian has about that this time he will kick his criminal habit. But
:22:50. > :22:51.
:22:51. > :22:54.reminders of past scams on his doorstep. -- are on his doorstep.
:22:54. > :22:59.When I was younger and first got taught how to shoplift, these were
:22:59. > :23:04.the areas that I used to walk around with my friends. We used to
:23:04. > :23:08.pick houses and shops and things. This is where we first started
:23:08. > :23:11.doing our burglaries and stuff like that. I do not regret what I have
:23:11. > :23:16.done, because it has may be the person I am. I would not be that
:23:16. > :23:19.person otherwise. But I am really sorry for the people I heard, I am
:23:19. > :23:23.really sorry for what I have done to their families, had my own
:23:23. > :23:26.family. Adrian got his curfew for
:23:26. > :23:32.shoplifting. For although he insists he brigade with good
:23:32. > :23:36.intentions, his solicitor knows the breach will have consequences.
:23:36. > :23:40.The crack court take their orders seriously, as the starting point is
:23:40. > :23:44.that the judge considers jail. Would all have our work cut out to
:23:44. > :23:48.persuade them otherwise. Jail for Adrian would mean curtains
:23:48. > :23:53.for King Lear. The show is booked for more festivals, as there is no
:23:53. > :23:58.time to find another villain. -- and there is no time to it fight
:23:58. > :24:03.another villain. The case has been adjourned for a few weeks. The show
:24:03. > :24:07.will go on. I am glad about it. It is a bid for
:24:07. > :24:12.pain we have got to go back again, but it is a result. I can get by
:24:12. > :24:15.performers is done. I am going to be an actor, I am an actor, as
:24:15. > :24:19.nothing will change that. Even if they do decide to send it back to
:24:19. > :24:23.prison, when I come home I will go straight back to it. There is no
:24:23. > :24:32.doubt in my mind about what I am doing.
:24:32. > :24:37.Six days on it, and Adrian appears to be sticking to his word. I have
:24:37. > :24:46.come to an audition for Medea. is at the present theatre in
:24:46. > :24:49.Birmingham. I don't know what I am going to be doing it. I have told a
:24:50. > :24:55.everything. Honesty is the best policy, and that is how I mean to
:24:55. > :24:59.go on. For I would just be honest and straight, and no one can fault
:24:59. > :25:03.before that. But will he be available for the
:25:03. > :25:13.performance? It is a risky choice for the director. It all hinges on
:25:13. > :25:19.
:25:19. > :25:27.And there is one man who needs a bit of convincing. For it his
:25:27. > :25:32.grandfather, Leonard. He looks all right. Yes, he is a
:25:32. > :25:37.nice lad. The you were one ones. yes!
:25:37. > :25:43.Lead and his late wife stood by their grandson time and time again.
:25:43. > :25:46.-- and Leonard. They gave us what we needed, and
:25:46. > :25:51.looked after us. They would always come to visit me in prison, even
:25:51. > :25:57.though every time it was the last time. They were always there. They
:25:57. > :26:07.never gave up on me. They have always been there for me. I am sure
:26:07. > :26:07.
:26:07. > :26:14.they always will be. Leonard has had it all before, and
:26:14. > :26:21.this time he is reserving judgment. I see things differently. I hope
:26:21. > :26:30.you do! Things are getting better now. If you need to keep it up.
:26:30. > :26:33.yes, I am getting there. Yes, for the moment. Time will tell. Yes.
:26:33. > :26:38.As time is dragging on. Adrian still has no idea if he is going
:26:38. > :26:43.back to jail or not. He is living on benefits and sleeping on his
:26:43. > :26:49.mum's floor. My mum feeds me, yesterday my
:26:49. > :26:53.sister fed beef. Friends pick me up and drop me off, and help me out.
:26:53. > :26:58.If but that will only last so long, you cannot keep hanging on people
:26:58. > :27:03.all the time. It is a worry. A there is some good news. The
:27:03. > :27:10.Medea director is giving him a shot. A when I got back, an e-mail was
:27:10. > :27:13.sent to me. They offered me the lead role of Jason. I went to my
:27:13. > :27:18.first rehearsal on Sunday. It was fantastic.
:27:18. > :27:22.The gamble has been -- the gamble has paid off. The hearing has been
:27:22. > :27:26.postponed, at our feet turn thespian has stayed at the trouble
:27:26. > :27:32.for months. Can he keep it up? Right now, there is just one
:27:32. > :27:38.verdict he cares about. Today is our second show. It is a
:27:38. > :27:43.Greek tragedy, Medea. Today I have family coming, and friends. They
:27:43. > :27:51.haven't seen me perform it. I'm really excited, nervous, but I feel
:27:51. > :28:01.good, I feel great, and ready to go. I stop myself from crying, which
:28:01. > :28:02.
:28:02. > :28:07.was very proud of. It was very good. And there is nothing to stop him.
:28:07. > :28:10.If the courts have spoken. He has been given 60 hours of unpaid work.
:28:10. > :28:16.Adrian is adamant he is a changed man.
:28:16. > :28:20.I am not giving his up, that is simple. I am ready for the hard
:28:20. > :28:29.knocks at the trials and tribulations. But I am not going to
:28:29. > :28:34.That is it from Inside Out this week. We are back next Monday with
:28:34. > :28:38.more stories from here in the Midlands.
:28:38. > :28:42.Next week, they say it is part of our industrial heritage. We
:28:42. > :28:47.discover why bailiffs have been caught in it to remove the Black
:28:47. > :28:51.Country horses. If the horses get taken away then